A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
movie
(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)
Released January 01, 2005
Overview
What follows is a black-and-white silent film set in the 1890s during the brewing Filipino revolution against Spanish colonialism. A series of tragic and comic sequences tells the Three Ages of an Indio (“common man”) as he progresses from boy bell ringer in a village church to teenage revolutionary to adult theater actor rehearsing a popular Spanish play.
Runtime
1h 37m
Budget
$,10,000
Origin Country
Philippines
Original Language
Filipino
Original Title
Maicling pelicula nañg ysañg Indio Nacional
Status
Released
Production Countries
- Philippines
Spoken Languages
- (Tagalog)
Production Companies
- no logo available
Atopic films
Philippines
- no logo available
Hubert Bals Fund
Philippines
